Finally! A great post for this situation. It has to stop because it can drive away new players. Also it's not fair when the scammer is an alt to a much richer account.
It goes hand in hand with one of the guidelines a certain kind of dealer that exists. Which is you should never front anything that you cannot afford to lose. If u can't afford the money or the keeping the tut if worse came to worse and it wouldn't be a big issue or ripoff keeping that tut than don't do it.
Unfortunately scammers are part of real life and this game is composed of real ppl. Like it or not ppl will always do things like that to each other, all u can do is b aware of it.